GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Strategic Covid-19 direction needed, not traffic lights red herrings
The debate over whether New Zealand’s Covid-19 ‘traffic lights’ system should be lowered from ‘red’ to ‘orange’ misses the point….
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GUEST BLOG: Ben Morgan – Converting international support into action and what the Russians are looking at doing next
Last week brought confirmation of the terrible atrocities committed by Russia in Ukraine, a sad indictment on the savagery of…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – More than egg running down face; it’s an entire poultry farm’s yolk
What does a Treasury ‘Investor Confidence Review’ (ICR) and a poultry farm have in common? Nothing really apart from an…
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GUEST BLOG: Ben Morgan – Don’t get excited yet, there is a long way to go and we need more information about Russian capabilities
The Russian thrust at Kiev disintegrated this week and Ukrainian forces now control the surrounding area. Russian propagandists will try…
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GUEST BLOG: Ben Morgan – Ukrainian forces push forward in the north, east and south and who bombed Belgorod?
The situation in northern Ukraine is developing as expected, it was clear that the Russian thrust at Kiev has been…
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GUEST BLOG: Ben Morgan – Ukraine – What is really going on
Since the last update, Russian woes continue to increase, after saying that as a sign of good faith, they would…
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Ben Morgan – Ukraine – Peace talks, Russians admit they are in trouble
Russia’s position at yesterday’s peace talks in Turkey demonstrated the tough position that Putin has found himself in. The Russians…
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Ian Powell – What makes good public health sense also makes good sense for other things
As my ‘love affair’ with New Zealand Aotearoa’s public health system grew over many years I learnt to pick up…
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GUEST BLOG: Ben Morgan – Ukraine – Putin must be listening to advice, I was wrong
The situation is Ukraine has changed considerably, last Thursday I predicted that the Russians were close to collapse, partly because…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – More harmful than flesh-eating bugs
In 2003 Dr Peter Roberts published a book titled Snakes and Ladders: The Pursuit of a Safety Culture in New…